"I shall get it on easier terms from him than elsewhere; and it kills me to have continual bother about such things." And Mr Gresham, feeling that that difficulty was tided over for a time, and that the immediate pressure of little debts would be abated, stretched himself on his easy chair as though he were quite comfortable;--one may say almost elated.
How frequent it is that men on their road to ruin feel elation such as this! A man signs away a moiety of his substance; nay, that were nothing; but a moiety of the substance of his children; he puts his pen to the paper that ruins him and them; but in doing so he frees himself from a score of immediate little pestering, stinging troubles: and, therefore, feels as though fortune has been almost kind to him.
The doctor felt angry with himself for what he had done when he saw how easily the squire adapted himself to this new loan.

"It will make Scatcherd's claim upon you very heavy," said he.
Mr Gresham at once read all that was passing through the doctor's mind.

"Well, what else can I do ?" said he.

"You wouldn't have me allow my daughter to lose this match for the sake of a few thousand pounds?
It will be well at any rate to have one of them settled.

Look at that letter from Moffat." The doctor took the letter and read it.